Military Base Planned for Tiny Japanese Island

12/12/2012 5:12PM

A small island is on the frontlines of Japan's territorial dispute with China. A new army base is planned for Yonaguni, 80 miles from the contested islands in the East China Sea. WSJ's Yuka Hayashi reports.

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

I ... this small island isn't frontlines of Japan's territorial dispute with China ... and he is he's just eighteen miles from contested Iran's in the East China Sea ... in China's mainland is only two hundred miles away ... local station and stayed constant presence of Chinese chill ships is keeping them from traveling to the beach fishing grounds nearby ... Friday's school ... because of the situation some are seeing their cash to climb by thirty percent for the year ... as China grows smaller cities in its territorial claims to the guidance ... Japan is revamping its defence policy ... and beating his fleets of some unease and fighter jets ... some local business owners so watery that unit in the media attacked by China someday ... just in the past few weeks ... Chinese battleships twice failed to Japanese waters ... in twenty four nautical miles from the island ... is a new and great now our island as two police officers and their two guns ... yes ... he's sticking to it as a group of local residents pushing pulling him the BBC in what was which will likely come choose to ... Japan self Defense forces has to do things on the case here what could be the new cities Japan has built in the case ... it will be one hundred troops and their families to the island which is just sixteen degrees ... summer is this fear that a schoolmate Gangnam more vulnerable to any attacks ... but you know these may disappoint see because it will goose the economy ... still he says the emphases with China should be a diplomatic dialogue ... two hundred and ... twenty you should ask China to recognize this out two islands as Japanese territory ... and we should allow China to free the past three the area to keep the outer Pacific do ... it I think we can get along that way ... unless we sit down and discuss these issues is you will never be resolved ... no the digital image ... the presence of troops has already become a media sites ... for the second time this year ... dozens of soldiers came to unit in the head of North Korea's me Sale Tess ... to me so flew over nearby islands that no damage was reported ... for The Wall Street Journal this is you can see him getting tyranny Japan ...